SKINNER STREET

   North-west from Giltspur Street to Farringdon Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1848-51).

   First formed in 1802 on the line of the present Holborn Viaduct to avoid the steep and winding ascent of Snow Hill.

   It seems never to have been a flourishing thoroughfare and was removed for the formation of Holborn Viaduct, 1867

   Named after Alderman Skinner, who inaugurated the scheme.